With great interest I read all the messages posted in this group for
already several years. I have learned a lot from it that I could use
to my benefit in my job.
Now that more and more programmers worldwide become interested in
DICOM, more and more messages about DICOM software products appear in
this newsgroup. I am not a programmer myself, but a service specialist
in MRI, networking and DICOM for a major manufacturer.
Although some of the messages dealing with DICOM software products
have my special interest, the majority of the software-related DICOM
messages do not ahve my interest.

Lately the dicom newsgroup contains many messages about software
products dealing with DICOM.

With this message I want to propose to start a new DICOM newsgroup
besides the present group: "comp.protocols.dicom". I would suggest a
group with the name : "comp.protocols.dicom.software". or something
similar. I think this does not need any further explanation.

I would greatly appreciate any respons from the people in this group
who always answer questions.

Kind regards
Kees

10-02-2007, 09:21 AM

unix

No !; was Re: New group: "comp.protocols.dicom.software"

Hi Kees

Since you asked, I am totally opposed to this.

There is not enough volume to justify splitting what little traffic
there is into a new subgroup, and there is considerable overlap
in terms of what is relevant to developers and others.

Not to mention the intensely tedious and bureaucratic process that
is necessary to establish a new non-alt group. David Channin was
lucky to get the votes to establish the original group in the first
place.

If you aren't interested in the messages that don't apply to you,
skip them, but don't try to sequester them somewhere else where
they won't offend your tender sensibilities.

David

Kees wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi All.
>
> With great interest I read all the messages posted in this group for
> already several years. I have learned a lot from it that I could use
> to my benefit in my job.
> Now that more and more programmers worldwide become interested in
> DICOM, more and more messages about DICOM software products appear in
> this newsgroup. I am not a programmer myself, but a service specialist
> in MRI, networking and DICOM for a major manufacturer.
> Although some of the messages dealing with DICOM software products
> have my special interest, the majority of the software-related DICOM
> messages do not ahve my interest.
>
> Lately the dicom newsgroup contains many messages about software
> products dealing with DICOM.
>
> With this message I want to propose to start a new DICOM newsgroup
> besides the present group: "comp.protocols.dicom". I would suggest a
> group with the name : "comp.protocols.dicom.software". or something
> similar. I think this does not need any further explanation.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any respons from the people in this group
> who always answer questions.
>
> Kind regards
> Kees[/color]